$3,081
New Hampshire Pictorial Needlework Sampler, "Hannah W. Perkins Age 11," Jaffrey, New Hampshire, 1818, wrought with silk, chenille, and metallic threads on a linen ground with painted and pricked paper details, the sampler centered with a scene with a young lady with applied painted paper face holding a bouquet of flowers in a pasture with applied pricked paper grazing sheep, trees, a large basket of flowers, and a house on a distant hilltop, with rows of alphabets and a pious verse above, all enclosed in a meandering flowering and fruiting vine, (imperfections), 17 1/4 x 18 1/4 in., in a later molded oak frame. Provenance: By family descent of the maker, pedigree chart and a family record attached to verso. Literature: See "Pictorial Samplers of Southern New Hampshire" in Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers, Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850 , by Betty Ring, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993, pp. 244-247. This sampler is related in style and by family to a group of four samplers illustrated in Ring's book. They were worked by girls from the small towns of Fitzwilliam, Rindge, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, just north of the Massachusetts border. Samplers in the north central Massachusetts towns of Lancaster and Leominster bear borders, central scenes, and painted or paper-faced figures. Ring writes, "A number of families from this region of Massachusetts moved into southern new Hampshire during the early federal period, and contact was no doubt continued with friends and relat Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-03-04
